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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by pjmlp on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:39PM (#13942751)
You are forgetting the magic CSS incantations, which are browser and version dependent, to accelerate something that is just granted on any native UI toolkit.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by pcwalton on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:53PM (#13942922)
I agree that the paint/compositing distinction is bad (see my reply to Paul Irish), but Win32 has just an opaque a distinction. GDI is much worse for modern hardware acceleration than the Web is.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by pjmlp on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:30PM (#13945319)
GDI is a dead worse, already replaced by better solutions for anyone that cares to use them, yet it still scales better than most web stuff.
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